Test 6 · ★ · Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince…

Is the lily actually the maiden, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: lily

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1455 «Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince dives into the river as a crab» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lily	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lily	det
3	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maiden	csubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 maiden	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 maiden	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 maiden	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the lily					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she's a tree, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 tree	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tree	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tree	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a tree				mate vocative	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, the old witch zapped her into a flower floating on the river, proper mean

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 zapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 zapped	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 witch	amod
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zapped	nsubj
6	zapped	zap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 zapped	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 flower	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 flower	det
10	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 zapped	obl
11	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 flower	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floating	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 zapped	punct
16	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mean	amod
17	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 zapped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zap	past	the old witch	her = she		a flower			tree rules
2	float	gerund	a flower not said here			the river			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on river=Trajectory

Option 3

Yeah, she turned into a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 bird	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	she					into a bird result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she got zapped into a flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 zapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 zapped	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 zapped	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 zapped	aux:pass
5	zapped	zap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 flower	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flower	det
8	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 zapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zap	past · passive		she		a flower			tree rules

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